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Types of Therapy and Mental Health Providers

Stop Abuse Campaign

Therapists and counselors have extensive training in mental health techniques, mental health issues and what interventions to employ based on goals that are determined collaboratively with the client and counselor or therapist. . There are several types of mental health providers and therapies.

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What can we learn from cultural adaptations of dialectical behavior therapy?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Challenges with mental health occur worldwide. However, the psychotherapies that treat these concerns have been mainly developed by and for people who are White and live in Western countries. Because of this, many efforts have been made adapt psychotherapy to the cultures of people of color and cross-cultural clients.

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Clinical Considerations When Clients Have Children

Society of Clinical Psychology

This SCP blog by Zalewski, Goodman, Cole, and McLaughlin corresponds with a new Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice article titled, “Clinical Considerations when Treating Adults who are Parents.” 2003, ), and that the majority of adults with a mental disorder are parents (Nicholson, Biebel, Katz-Leavy, & Williams, 2002).

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A Framework to Test Emotion Regulation in the Lab and the Clinic

Society of Clinical Psychology

Understanding how people regulate their emotions well is a key question of interest for both basic and applied psychology researchers. People who have access to a larger repertoire of emotion regulation strategies tend to report better psychological health, but this relation is small ( r =.12; 12; Cheng et al., Target Article.

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Debunking Myths About PTSD

Gateway Foundation

Some people develop misconceptions regarding PTSD, which creates a stigma within the mental health community that could prevent people from seeking the help they need to improve their health. A person’s existing neurobiology, such as the presence of other mental health conditions.

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Clinicians and Clients Disagree: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice

Society of Clinical Psychology

This blog piece by Dr. Douglas Samuel from Purdue University discusses a recently published article in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. . Arguably the greatest accomplishment in mental health over the past few decades has been the increased focus on providing psychological treatment that is supported by empirical research.

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